Sometimes the point takes you to some memory that is faint. The memory might not even be yours. And this is one of those poems, in which David Baker has me thinking of what I’ve gained and lost trying ...

BBC presenter Sophie Raworth reads These Are The Hands by Michael Rosen. The former children's laureate is currently in intensive care in hospital, with suspected coronavirus. The poem is published in ...

“First Hand,” the new volume of poetry by Bainbridge Island author Linda Bierds, contains passages of astonishing beauty, like these lines from a poem titled “Matins: Gregor Mendel and the Bees”: The ...

Stuck for gift ideas for the poetry lover in your life? Poet, writer and teacher Dave Lordan might have the answer to your prayers. Dave appeared on Monday's Arena, and told Seán Rocks that, for a ...

In her second collection, The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home (BOA, 2011), Janice N. Harrington turns an unflinching eye to the world of those who have reached a final stage of life.

Joe Duffy has written a poem in honour of his famous phrase, '51551 wash yer hands' which originated at the start of the pandemic. In March 2020 as Covid-19 reached Ireland, Joe Duffy began telling ...

Most of us do not think much of the frail elderly, the people who require constant care to get to the end of the day, near the end of their lives; still less do most of us think about their caregivers ...

Writing a new poem about the pandemic, El Jones thought of long-term care homes in lockdown, and families "meeting through glass" as residents were brought to windows to see loved ones outside. "Those ...